Not the Second Sex: A book of Women

Not the Second Sex is about some of the women I had met around the world in the last thirty years. These women had instilled a firm belief in me that women are in fact not the second sex and that a man appears to be superior only because they allow him to be so. Laila “All that investment is only for removing the dress and become naked at the end of the day in front of a man,” Krishna said to Laila, a gorgeous fashion model in Mumbai, when she was bolstering about the efforts she had to take to dress and make up. Annie “Given a choice, a woman will always choose a man with whom she would be happy rather than comfortable. A man never understands that.” Rachel “Author Rebecca West said, ‘I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.” Maitreyi Maitreyi asked Yajnavalkya her husband, the great intellect and renowned sage, “If you leave me with all your wealth to seek the Brahman, what shall I do with that by which I cannot become an immortal?.”

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About the author

J. Muthu Kumar, born in 1962, is an oil and gas management consultant. He had travelled more than thirty countries on business and leisure in the last thirty years. His unique work in the field of oil and gas takes him to remote locations and to meet people of extreme diversity — from the board room with CEOs and Chairpersons to bankers and investors, engineers, supervisors and operators to native tribes inside dense forests, nomads in barren deserts, mariners in deep oceans, modern men and women in developed rich countries and underdeveloped poor countries. His extensive travel and work nature allows him to meet and work with people of various ethnicities and from countries across the world. He has immense interest in history, religions, philosophy, spirituality, evolution, cosmic energy, future and God. Not the Second Sex is his first attempt to write some of the experiences of his life as a fiction. He is also in the process of completing two other novels.He lives in Dubai with his wife N.K. Prabhavathy and two sons Vignesh and Krishna.

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